What does a professional calligrapher do?

I posted on Tuesday about handwriting, and how I struggle to read much of it thesedays. I attributed this to a lack of practice, and perhaps an over-reliance on typeset and computer text. I mentioned: My late mum was a professional calligrapher, and had some of the most beautiful casual handwriting I’ve ever seen. A couple of people DMd me to ask what such a job entails, though coached in language that suggested they were trolling or attempting to take the piss. If you were sincere, I apologise for mischaracterising your comment. If you really were being a dick, have fun with that. Either way, I thought it might be a fun topic to discuss. A professional calligrapher is someone who writes for a commission or fee. Unlike a typist or scribe who writes to transcribe ideas into text, calligraphers also approach their craft as art. The style, or way in which the words are written, matter as much as the words themselves. My mum did classical Western calligraphy, though in Singapore she had…